The Financial Risk & Climate Change Connection
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How do we apply the principles of financial risk management to the challenge of climate change? In this episode, we connect the worlds of climate and finance with renowned economist Dr. Bob Litterman.
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The Need for Forward-looking Government & Corporate Policy - Dr. Andrew Dessler
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How do we thread the needle with smart policy that avoids a worst-case warming scenario? What responsibilities do businesses have to go from talk to real climate action? In this episode, Dr. Andrew Dessler lends his expertise in climate impact and climate change policy as delve into what needs to get done.
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Episode 9 - Bridging the Gap Between Scientists and Decision Makers
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Episode 8: Dr. Zeke Hausfather
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An Inconvenient Truth: Dr. Michael Mann
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More than two decades ago, Dr. Michael Mann and his colleagues published the iconic “hockey stick” graph--an estimate of how temperatures varied over the past thousand years. The truth, as it turns out, is quite inconvenient.
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Anticipating Climate Risks - Dr. Kevin Trenberth
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Arctic Warming & Winter Weirding - Dr. Jennifer Francis
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Fires and Drought - Dr. Jonathan Overpeck
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Meteorologists across much of the western United States are spending more time tracking drought, fires, smoke and dangerous air quality on their weather maps. All the predictions climate scientists made a generation ago are coming true: wet areas are trending wetter, dry areas are getting drier, setting the stage for a brave new world of super-sized wildfires.
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Climate Change and Hurricanes - Dr. Kerry Emanuel
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A man-made chemical blanket of greenhouse gases, CO2 and methane, is warming the atmosphere; 93% of all the additional warming is going into the world’s oceans, jet fuel for hurricanes that get their energy from warm water – the warmer the water, the greater the potential for rapid intensification. The proportion of storms rapidly intensifying in the Atlantic has doubled since 1982.
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Physical Climate Change Risks - Dr. John Abraham
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Maybe the media is focusing in on wild weather events that have always plagued our nation and the planet? The data suggest otherwise. The definition of normal weather is changing before our eyes. This is not, in fact, normal. A consistently warmer, wetter atmosphere is flavoring all weather now, making many naturally-occurring weather events more intense and long-lasting. The weather, increasingly, is news-worthy.
info_outlineRunning a successful business entails managing a multitude of risks every day from new competitors to new technology. Climate change itself brings a plethora of business challenges. How can we frame the threat? What threats are top of mind for businesses?
In this Episode
- Introduction to Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished scholar at the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder and an Honorary Academic in the Department of Physics, Auckland University in Auckland, New Zealand
- An in-depth discussion on the impact of climate change on business
- What is Dr. Trenberth worried about most?
- How far does resilience/retrofitting really go?
Episode Links
- Dr. Kevin Trenberth's staff page at UCAR
- Climate Impacts on Water Resources